[WIP] Simple mining Drill

- This Program is not ready! -

A simple mining Drill, that drills down, collects the whitelisted Ores, goes up again and drops its Inventory in a Chest.

(This is my first Lua Project, so i apologize if my code is bad, and i'm not using Feature xyz)


Install:

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pastebin get jZp85wb7 drill

Setup:

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- Place the mining Turtle on the Ground
- Place the Chest in front of it
- Fuel up the Turtle
- Run the Program

ToDo:

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- closing the Holes (Done)
- selfrefueling System
- move Drill to next location
- optimize drillpattern
- optional Remote Status
- optional Remote Control

Compatible (Ore) mods:

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- Industrial Craft 2
- Tinkers Construct
- Harvestcraft
- Underground Biomes
- Applied Energistics 2

This sounds like something I made as one of my first programs too. But this hugh if monster kills me, I would advise you to use a table for the whitelisting stuff and maybe also switching to a blacklist since in most cases there are only a few blocks you do not want like dirt and stone.

Maybe something along the lines of:

local blackist = {
  "minecraft:stone",
  "minecraft:dirt"
  -- and so on
}
local _blist = {}

-- Inverse blacklist for fast hashmap lookup
for i = 1, #blacklist do
  _blist[blacklist[i]] = true
end

-- Then you only need to check if the block is in the blacklist
temp, block = turtle.inspect()
if _blist[block["name"]] then
  -- do the mining
end

Cheers
Mirodin

Thanks to your idea :)/>! That helps me a lot. I use your idea to improve my program and it gets better now.
See my program at https://github.com/Sayinore/Computer-Craft/blob/master/Miner.lua.
Thank you again! :P/>